Workshop on Many Tasks Computing at SC'08

Our goal in convening this workshop is to encourage discussion among those interested in escaping the "SPMD rut" that characterizes much work in parallel, if not grid, computing. We believe that new applications and more powerful computers are spurring increased interest in computations involving many separate tasks, loosely or tightly coupled, often linked via a global name/file space. These computations may be no less demanding of computing, file systems, and networks than SPMD computations, but have important differences that may require new tools. Topics of interest include: